As most of their little lives are spent in tending cattle, naturally their stories are largely concerned with animals, visible and invisible, Number one begin "There was a Jin order to obtain them.
Give me another said the tiger. Give me your other eye replied the rabbit.
I do so said the tiger I will be blind. Never mind replied the rabbit, I will lead you along. So the tiger parted with his eye and the rabbit gave him a toffy ball. Now said the rabbit come along, and taking him by tke car he led the lind tiger to the edge of a high jclif. Here he kindled a fire and Invited the tiger to occupy the cliff side while he piled on the fuel. By and by the fire became too hot for ithe tiger, so the rabbit kindly in-ited him to retire three steps, and doing 30 the poor blind tiger fell head-long over the cliff into the river clow and was drowned. So died the tiger, the enemy of the rabbits, The Freckled Cow The next boy began: a cer! Jpoor man owned a freckled cow, its freckles being white, black, and brown. Unfortunate cireumstanc: s followed the poor fellow till his Jone and only possession was the freckled cow. The poor animal seeing his distress and having a heart of love for its owner sugar the should kill her, cat the drink the blood, and wear the skin. To this humble request the poor fellow replied, if T kill you then T will have food for a fow days, but if T keep you alive T can drink your milk and eat the butter. The jew however persuaded the prot man to adopt the following plan: kill me and skin me said the cow, then remove the hair from the skin fand use the flesh as a protection Hfrom the wind. The cow before be-jing killed made the man promise that he would not under any cumstances eat the flesh oF d the blood. Follow the advice which give strictly and you will have all [you need in. wealth, property, and substance. After killing the animal he skinned it, using the skin as tent and the flesh as a protection from the cold winds. The four logs he used as supports for the tent and the head tok the place of x door. The cow before dying told him to take the hair to the top of a mountain- and at the very top he was to seatter to the winds the white hair; half way down the mountain he was to seatter to the fwinds the black hair, and at th> foot of the mountain he was to seatter to the winds the brown being exterminated.
and leopards, were slowly Dut surely wearing "the numbers down. One day this little rabbit thought he would do something to save his race from entire destruc tion and make life more peaerful and tolerable for his fellow rabbits. Having @ nodding acquaintance with the king of the wild beasts, namely the lion, he went and interviewed this monster and told of a fierce enemy who desired to destroy the king, Where is he? asked the ion? Come, said the rabbit, and T will show you where he is." Leading the king of beasts to a wide deep, clear lake, the rabbit showed him another lion looking at him from the water. Immediately on seeing someone he had never seen before he growled, and the grow! was returned, he' looked fiercely, and the fierce look was returned, he made to spring and his enemy in the water assumed the same attitude, Immediately he sprang into the water and was drowned, and that ended one lion, the enemy of the rabbits, Knowing' where a fierce tiger had. his abode, the rabbit approached him with the following request: father, tiger, would you like to buy something, What have you to sell, asked the tiger? Thave lovely sweet eyes replied the rabbit. Let me taste tone said the ticer. Here you are replied the rabbit, and made a if he would take out one of eyes and gave it to the tiger. The fierce animal ate it, enjoyed it ime mensely and asked for another. will, said the rabbit, if you me one of your eyes." Right-O, sai the tiger, here you are and gave the rabbit one of his exes. The pure sweetness of: the toffy balls so captivated. the tiger that he was now willing'to part-with anything: hair. He followed this advice im plicity and returned to his tent. Feeling bungey after his exertions fon the mountain he forgot his promise and ate a little of the fat from the leg of the ea. Imely there appeared in front im the ghost of his old cow. Why, asked his old friend, did you leat the flesh when T asked you not do so? The poor, fellow could make no answer and simply hid Tead in shame. The cow in its approach to the tent appeared to be Jame and the poor fellow noticing this realized that what he had eaten lof the Ice had caused the lameness. The freckled cow, remembering how ivory indigent his master had been, ook no more notice of his breach lof faith. Some ti had sone the poor fellow in cow-hide tent looked up, and there, all sides of him he saw numerous omadie tents, and the frst he look-into he saw a young woman going about her work. At the tent oer he also saw a large dog. Lift. ing his eyes above the ten's ave the country around covered with black yak. Looking further! jun the hill he saw large numbers lof horses all quietly and peacefully zrazinz, Further up the hill his eyes beheld large flocks of sheep' and goats. These he soon discovered were all his own. The black hair lot his freckled cow scattered. to the wind had turned into yak; the brown haz had turned into horses: jand the white hair had become flocks of sheep. Thus the words of his old cow friend had coma true avd his every desire had been ful-
Mouse ard the Elephant Boy number three begins: a Tibetan farmer one day discovered that} some little creature was eating holes: in his different: garments and eaus-
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